JEE (Advanced) moderately difficult, say students

Ajay Joshi

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Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, May 27

Students seeking admission to the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) today appeared for the JEE (Advanced) 2019 exam. The exam was conducted at Saffron Mall here and students who had cleared their JEE (Mains) appeared for the exam to secure their seats for various undergraduate programmes across IITs. The exam was conducted in an online mode in morning and evening (9 am to 12 noon and 2 pm to 5 pm) subsequently. However, amid strict monitoring, the students were advised to reach their examination centre at 7.45 am and 12.45 pm for enquiry. The exam consisted of two papers (Paper 1 and Paper 2) of three hour duration each. Both papers are compulsory. Notably, this was the second time that the exam was conducted online and the results for the same is expected to be released after 15 days.

After appearing for the exam, the students reviewed question papers and said it was moderatly difficult.

They said the paper in the morning was bit lengthy with mathematics being tricky in nature. Whereas, the chemistry part was easy and based on the concept of the NCERT. The students said some of the questions were directly asked from Class 12th syllabus.

Bhavnoor Singh, a student of Eklavya School, said: “Overall, the question paper was lengthy and balanced. Both multiple options and integrated numerical-based questions were asked. Questions from physics and maths were moulded in a tricky manner. However, we managed to solve them and chemistry was the easiest among all portions.” Besides, they said: “It was the easier one as compared to the last paper. There were a total of 54 questions in Paper 1, 18 each from physics, chemistry and mathematics totalling 186 marks. Paper 2 was in the same format as paper 1.

After analysing the question paper, Varun Gandhi, who himself is an IITian, said the exam was slightly difficult, mathematics being toughest, followed by physics and chemistry. Questions in physics were mostly conceptual and maths was tricky. He said the exam was relatively similar as compared to the last year. However, physics was the toughest, maths was tough and chemistry portion was average.